CyberCX - Senior Engineer (FDE) - Secure AI

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About the Role

We are seeking a Secure AI Senior Engineer to support the delivery of hands-on consulting and engineering services across Secure AI, AI-enabled applications, and modern cloud environments.

This role is suited to someone who enjoys solving practical technical problems, working closely with clients and teammates, and building secure, usable outcomes. You will contribute to a range of engagements across design review, implementation support, control uplift, and technical assessment, helping organisations adopt AI in a secure and responsible way.

You will work alongside experienced consultants, architects, and engineers across the Secure AI practice, with the opportunity to deepen your skills across AI development, security, cloud platforms, application security, and secure-by-design delivery.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• •Support the delivery of secure AI and application security engagements for enterprise and government clients
• •Contribute to reviews of AI-enabled applications, workflows, platforms, and integrations
• •Assist in identifying risks across models, prompts, data flows, APIs, cloud services, and supporting systems
• •Help define practical recommendations to improve security, governance, and delivery controls
• •Build or configure technical controls, patterns, and supporting artefacts for secure AI implementations
• •Produce clear, high-quality client deliverables, including technical products, findings, recommendations, implementation guidance, and supporting documentation
• •Work with client stakeholders to understand their environment, priorities, and constraints
• •Contribute to reusable templates, reference patterns, and internal capability uplift across the Secure AI team
• •Collaborate across CyberCX practices where engagements span cloud, identity, application security, data, or governance domains

Preferred Qualifications, Experience & Skills

Around 4+ years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, data science, cloud engineering, security engineering, or technical consulting

Experience building, reviewing, or supporting modern applications or cloud-based systems (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)

Familiarity with secure development practices and common security concepts across AI, applications, infrastructure, and integrations

Exposure to AI, ML, Generative AI, Agentic AI, or AI-assisted development use cases

Familiarity with application security review, threat modelling, IAM, API security, or workload security

Exposure to CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerised workloads, or Kubernetes

Awareness of common security or risk frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, MAESTRO, or similar

Ability to investigate technical issues, structure findings, and communicate clearly

Strong written and verbal communication skills

A practical, team-oriented approach to solving problems and delivering outcomes

Based on business requirements, candidates applying for this role can also be assessed for other opportunities within Accenture. ​

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· 18 weeks paid parental leave

· Long & short-term career break opportunities

· Structured career development program

· Local and international career opportunities.

· Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™

· Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.

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